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grow. levels in the area around fukushima. japan's nuclear worries leaving anxious nations looking to their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's all worth the risk the director general of the world nuclear situation now tells us how he assesses the industry's future. gyrates it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much of the new production technology improved since its first reactor well the history of the nuclear age goes back more than a half century and enormous changes have taken place in that period of time i think

the remarkable thing about the history of nuclear energy is how safe it has been almost from the very beginning. when we go back and see the first reactors experimentally being built in the one nine hundred fifty s. we're looking at a very very new technology and now we've had some bumps along the way that is force for sure we had three mile island in america we had turned over all in ukraine we just had fukushima but there i think the remarkable thing about this technology which is producing so much of the world's electricity is how essential east safe it has begin been it does not emit any emissions into the into the global atmosphere and it has only on very very rare occasion harmed anyone and meanwhile we've had thousands hundreds of thousands even millions of fatalities from the extraction of fossil fuels from the surface of the earth and from the health consequences of carbon emissions so if you look at the history of nuclear technology you not only see a very safe technology but you also see

a relatively superior technology because it is essentially emissions free callus always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how can engineer be profitable when you have to pay for storing away for thousands of years you know that the question of waste is i think the most fundamentally misunderstood aspect of nuclear energy most people say well nuclear energy might be ok seems to be pretty safe but you don't know what to do with the waste let me say something that may shock you. the greatest comparative asset of nuclear power is its waste now why is this. in other major energy forms whether it be coal or natural gas or oil what you find is that the atmosphere the global public atmosphere is being used as an enormous planetary waste dump all of those carbon particulate all of that carbon monoxide all of that carbon dioxide is going in there right now we are admitting

carbon dioxide at the rate of thirty billion tons a year which is eight hundred tons per seconds into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric waste nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an amount of radioactive waste that sequent to the size of the fuel which becomes highly radioactive and then must be safely stored but the wonder of nuclear technology is that it can be managed it can be contained there is a relatively small amount of it and it can be very very safely stored in the immediate term when it comes out of the reactor and it can eventually be put in long term storage containers placed back into the earth in the geological repositories that are carefully selected and without any ultimate harm either to people or the environment now you sound like crass threats environmentalists what's

your job right now how would you characterize it i think when bill make the credibility of the nuclear power industry well there are a lot of people think it's the greens versus nuclear and in fact in many green organizations anti-nuclear ism is one of the fundamental principles i'm in the nuclear power business precisely because i believe in the in my or environmental virtues of nuclear power i got into this business when president clinton assigned me to be the his ambassador to the united nations or going to. ations that deal with nuclear energy and i was particularly concerned and focused on the question of nuclear proliferation containing that and i did that work for president clinton for eight years but in the process i got a real education about the positive side of nuclear the the electricity generation that nuclear could bring to the world without environmental consequences and it was on that basis that i decided to dedicate dedicate the remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology part time with natural gas why why need care

energy is has to natural gas well natural gas produces a lot of waste it produces carbon dioxide emissions on a very very large scale these emissions come out of the burning of the natural gas and they come out in even more potent form they come out of the transmission of natural gas through long pipelines where the unburned gas leaks in small quantity but in the form of methane that is twenty times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide so the combination of burning natural gas and the leakage of unburned natural gas that comes through the transmission lines makes this a very very serious liability for in terms of global greenhouse gas concentrations you know that europe sat powerhouse germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thinks out of their country and ali them i spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently and they're extremely proud of happy to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually to

gain votes and he said it was a democratic house so i was saying it was a sad it was in its sad result of democratic politics responding instantly and irrationally to some event halfway around the world to change the basic energy policy of europe's largest industrial economy it was certainly done according to democratic procedures but these democratic procedures produced as doug democracy sometimes does a high. irrational result i'm an american i know that irrationality can come out of a political system i've seen it many times in my life an american democracy democracy does not produce great results and sometimes it produces silly results and we've just seen one and in germany what about for christina what happened there and least you keep telling me that it's all sane i don't keep telling you that it's all safe there was an accident fukushima look what happened i mean how can how can that nuclear power be the future when it's still so incredibly dangerous for life

well it's interesting that you would say that because we've just seen twenty four thousand japanese citizens killed by an earthquake and a tsunami. we've seen the media have a frenzy in covering the accident at fukushima which has not made it had not been responsible for a single radiation fatality we have twenty four thousand citizens having died from the earthquake and a tsunami we've had a mishap a serious mishap at the fukushima power plant that has yet to produce a single fatality and yet people are using the word the phrase nuclear disaster nuclear tragedy as if something terribly harmful has occurred i'm in the at the beginning of the of the line when it comes to being unhappy about what happened at fukushima i think it was a tragedy in terms of the world's understanding of the essential safety of nuclear power i also think however that it might also be educational in the long term because people have begun to focus on it and as they begin to begin to focus even

more clearly on the ultimate consequences of fukushima they will learn that there was relatively little damage done by this event and this was a worst case nuclear event after for christina you said we need to go back and look at whether those post shutdown cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine what do you mean by go back the japanese made a mistake. the fundamental mistake they made was deciding that the worst. tsunami they might encounter would come at a certain height and that would be the worst case to nami that they would encounter and if they defended against that there there are backup cooling systems would be safe that was a mistake because they misjudged and the result was that they did not have waterproof backup cooling systems and because they did not have waterproof backup cooling systems those were flooded and rendered an operative now the why is this important how did this happen you have to think of nuclear energy as the equivalent

of a racehorse that finishes running a race and then needs a cool down period the reactors at fukushima when the earthquake began shutdown they became essentially helpless on purpose but they still needed some exteriors some external resupplied electricity supply to power cooling systems that would get them down from five percent of their overall heat level they had been at one hundred percent they were already down to five they needed some extra cooling to get down to normal atmospheric an ambient temperatures all nuclear power plants require that outside assistance after they have shut down and the japanese mistake resulted in those outside non-nuclear systems not being available so the great irony of what happened at fukushima is that it was the failure of non-nuclear support systems to be available after the shutdown that resulted in this meltdown

but you really believe everything that the nuclear operators tell you i don't have to believe but we operate a system of tremendous transparency we have i.a.e.a. standards that are enforced by national nuclear regulatory about bodies all around the world which are independent bodies completely separate from the operators we have a worldwide network of nuclear operators who visit each other's power plants and write reports and. analysis and criticism of each other so that they are all working to come up to the same standard of best practice there was a great deal of conversation inspection and analysis application of standards and judgment about whether people are adhering to standards that is going on on a daily basis throughout all of the four hundred thirty five power plants in the world the problem at focus shima was that they made a mistake and reactor design not in reactor operations but in reactor design and

what happened to happen now is that every nuclear regulatory authority in the world needs to go back and ask the question are all of the reactors under my supervision protected against worst case natural catastrophes like floods like tsunamis like earthquakes like plane crashes and that those questions are being asked right now i think they will result in some changes i don't think the changes are going to be terribly expensive i don't think they're going to take a long time to implement and i think that the the good of this is that with the world will have drawn a lesson from fukushima a nuclear safety will be even stronger in the aftermath thank you very much for this interview. spending the year in iraq his military journalist. killing us. wasting their time trying to get killed.

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you for joining me for this post news and these are the headlines. double sweet spots like moscow splashed thirteen million euros on moroccan dutch internationals this best stuttering season. plus decision day three countries bidding to host the twenty eighteen winter olympics are sets to discover their fate careers the favorites. in the hot seat suspended football chief mohammed bin hammam will face pete this ethics committee over allegations of corruption. the first to start the new spartak moscow have made a second signing in the space of twenty four hours more often we feel that may take us a lot has joined from belgian side standard the seven million euros and follows on from the signing of dutch midfielder de mi design from my x. because i don't know who turns twenty two last week scored eighteen goals from the

eighty two games about. often also i made two appearances for the belgian on the twenty one side before opting to play for the moroccan national team last year the track had been looking to reinforce their midfield off to brazilian and was injured at the start of the season. and because they were still coming just a few hours after another thank you it was a agreed to join my x. for six million euros playmaker was part of the netherlands world cup squad in south africa in the play alongside former teammate houri that syria used to play together as an outlaw where they won the dutch late in two thousand and nine spots like a hoping they can rekindle that winning partnership the moscow team currently seventh in the russian premier league after winning seven and losing six of their opening sixteen games. well meanwhile over in england match city have signed wants to go defendant step and savage from pot isn't great on a four year deal the twenty year old who has previously had

a trial that also will become city's second signing in three days following the arrival of galton she phoned the gunners savage played for his country in last october's goalless euro twenty twelve qualifier against england at wembley is also a place of autism against arsenal in the champions league. meanwhile pfieffer says mohamed bin hammam will face their ethics committee on july the twenty second to answer allegations of bribery during his election campaign to attempt to become president of football's governing body this is branded asian football confederation president has sent a report by fee for investigators as we know must respond its claim time and try to offer caribbean football chiefs cash in return for their votes and caribbean football union employees debbie miguel and jason sylvester will also appear before the hearing allegations against fifa vice president jack warner were dropped when he resigned from all football activities. meanwhile fief is reelected president sepp blatter says football's governing body will continue to invest in africa the

swiss held closed door talks with zimbabwe president robert mugabe and i understand they're going to try here guy it's the first time glass has returned to south africa since last year's world cup he also visited a local women's football match as well as construction sites for new pictures and sept fifth as pledged to invest seventy billion dollars in african football still holds firm. and inside the india executive committee there were people in our executive committee saying now again he gives all to africa only to africa by the way he gave also to the orders a little bit less but the seventy million still went to africa now and i agree one of the biggest football rivalries that some substantial backing has been thrown behind christiane r.l. though as well cup holder says he writes israel my teammates better than barcelona's face that yet the n.y.s.e. the rare and spain goalkeeper is in beijing for promotional and charity reasons and

he will donate items for an auction before holding a football clinic in the chinese capital as well i'll prepare for a too much to all of the asian nation next month cassius is likely to retain the captain so for that trip and real and after he will be off limits coach joe's a merino is trying to stretch and after all of us are crowded vocal support for now though which probably comes as no surprise. choosing between messin christian or an elder i would say i will go for christian no a few not only my team mate but all sir friend however i have to admit that they currently are both the best footballers in the world and they're both for ambitious and given all their effort to play football for themselves and for their respective teams but anyway among the two best players i would choose chris cherno. is. now the city which will host the twenty eighteen winter olympics will be announced this wednesday with south korea's considered the slight favorite after losing out to vancouver and then sochi in previous periods the international olympic committee

is set to make the announcement in durban in south africa the south korean bid has done its best to lobby last minute support and is promoting the country. as a place where people can enjoy winter sports the other cities in the hat all the twenty eighteen games are munich in germany and honestly in france the three cities are also making final presentations to the i.o.c. before the winner is announced just a few hours time. i saw the now and kitchell dream team scott in petersburg have appointed their newly retired stop there sort of is involved as their assistant coach that is i'm stanley cup we're not unless the n.h.l. to join the north two years ago but hip surgery is an end to the forty year olds playing career in april however the olympic champion is staying with sky to help a new head coach. and one of russia's richest sides while still being hard pushed to deliver the goods in the k h l best result in the three years since the league's inception was a quarter final exit in the playoffs last season of. europe and in the meantime

there's also been a huge signing for the army men's moscow basketball club as the european power has have agreed to the transfer of the continent's best player milosz to day offs the twenty four year old served as yet to boss a medical before joining tesco on a three year deal the god is moving from greek john's olympiacos after being named both mira league's most valuable player and europe's player of the year in twenty ten is the latest big name to be cool to an author like to know that it's time they are also joined the club. now relations between a steady and russians living in a stereo have been strained over the last decade however one man has come up with a novel way to get the two communities interacting again through rugby which if i'm portly has more. you and hearing your soon you will russian on this pitch only english below don't buy this man john's lead a former major in the british army he's been living in tallinn for the last twenty

years has been trying to introduce the new sports of greg b. to the youth of this baltic nation we set up tell him tiger is more to sports scale score and we know get a stoning of russia's cause so it's three balls three different ball game. this year is a first year. hopefully next year it will continue however the main part of this project is to try and get the russians in a stone unions playing together something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence unless you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regularly not one single year every week. it's not going to happen. when a child or one someone is seventeen or eighteen makes this go on for the first time of this league. there's going to be silliness so you must get them earlier another

important side of the project is to try and teach the children the dangers of drinking and taking drugs in two thousand and nine a staggering one point two percent of the stone in population or one in every three thousand people have contracted h.i.b. however by getting the children involved in sports john believes he is giving the kids something to believe in keep them occupied while there's been a number of success stories over the last few years but over the last fifteen years we've got over forty boys and girls at universities in your. particular head imbra . so you know that is for us success it's not about great rugby. you know we use rugby this is a bit of a pool of people to. well of until one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps is jaroslav he's absolutely russian but speaks fluent dystonia in goes to new stone new language school he's only started to play rugby over the past couple

of weeks but he says he really enjoys it as it gives him something to do during his three months of summer holidays well malegaon slightly girlies his likes to call and it's fun to this simple yugoslavs improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain of a talent tigers touch rugby team however the boys could have a big treat in store for them in the autumn john is trying to organize a tours of the rugby heartland of england to play some nights in gloucester no less the biggest bonus these kids will gain is the interaction between their respective communities which will hopefully lead to a stone you know in russian children playing peacefully together which of them both we don't see turned in stone you. and let's finish with a thing of beauty that is one of the would be unveiled yachts to take part in the fast approaching with all the ocean race the latest one how vessel to come into being is to abu dhabi's and turn to the world's longest race around the globe

reluctant to nothing less than four months on the top of the twenty ninth seven crucial talking point this time at home ports on six continents putting the race to light the seventh i would have a scapegoat in war has waited for more than the war for the uk to be designed for this now because the folks in spreading its wings just a marginal symbol would i think. that's often supposed to ask i think. we'll. bring you the latest in science stem cell culture from a realm for sure. we've got the future covered.

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